Places

WHEN IN...BEIJING

Going Native: Keep your chopsticks about you. Gady Epstein shows where to eat, sleep and toboggan down the Great Wall read more »

  • THE MUSEUM OF HEARTBREAK

    Authors on Museums: they could easily have been depressing, but Aminatta Forna, author of "The Memory of Love", discovers in Zagreb that the mementoes of the lovelorn are intriguing read more »

  • ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO'S SEVEN WONDERS

    The African-born musician talks about the places that mean the most to her read more »

  • STUMBLING OVER THE PAST

    In Berlin, more and more victims of the Nazis are being remembered with Stolpersteine—brass plates, embedded in concrete, in the streets where they lived. Andreas Kluth traces the stories behind the stones read more »

  • HIGHLAND BUSES, DESERT SANDS

    The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak chooses seven wonders—from Scotland to Arizona  read more »

  • VERTIGO IN REVERSE

    A walk on the wild side: as Robert Macfarlane puts his feet up, another acclaimed author picks up our walking stick. William Fiennes sets off into the deepest canyon in Europe read more »

  • CHOCOLATE AND SLAVERY

    Once the world’s leading cacao producer, the tiny nation of São Tomé and Príncipe seems to have fallen off the map. Samantha Weinberg, entranced, went twice in a year—and unearthed a dark history read more »